These spheres from the abyss conceal creatures with startling biology.

Thomas Mulligan examines the evolutionary marvels and environmental factors that allow the blue whale to maintain its status ...

Scientists pulled 40,000 fossil spine fragments from the deep ocean floor and traced sea urchins living there for 104 million ...

The fins of the guitarfish are sold for hundreds of dollars in Asian markets to make soup, a trade pushing them toward ...

Earth has a dizzying diversity of insects, with beetles alone making up 25 percent of all named animal species. The new calculations, detailed in a study published on Monday in Proceedings of the ...

Nature's most striking animals share a surprisingly common fashion statement, and their polka dots do far more than just look ...

Scientists have spent decades studying octopuses, but these mysterious creatures continue to surprise them. Every discovery seems to answer one question while raising another. Here are five facts that ...

With “Grand Theft Auto VI” looming in November, some developers have moved up their best games’ release dates.

A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about where you live than about what consciousness really requires.

True blue is one of nature's rarest tricks, and the animals that pull it off range from tiny ocean drifters that steal venom ...

Urokodia aequalis, an early Cambrian marine predator from the Chengjiang biota of China, preserves the earliest known evidence of chelicerae -- the pincer-like structures that later evolved into the ...

Deep-sea isopods live on the seafloor across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans ...